a river which rises in a corner of the Venetian confines, that runs between the rugged marble hills, and is left entirely to itself from its very source; hence a vast tract of land is overflowed by it, and encumbered with reeds, willows, and wild elders. A small space of ground only remains dry between the roots of the hills and the marsh at a place called Prud, and that is all covered with pieces of ancient hewn stones, fragments of inscriptions, columns, and capitals, and bas-reliefs of the best age, worn and deformed by time, and the barbarism of the northern people, who began on that side to destroy Narona. The inhabitants, who go often to cut reeds in the marsh, assert, that the vestiges of that large city may still be seen under water. It appears to have been extended over the plain a great way, and undoubtedly it was three miles in length at the foot of the hills. The ancient road is now under water; and it is necessary to ascend a very steep road, in order to pass the point of a craggy hill, on which probably before the Roman times those fortifications were erected that cost Vettius so much labour.